NVIDIA Partners with Korean Firms to Advance Physical AI Applications

NVIDIA is collaborating with leading Korean companies to accelerate the development and application of physical AI across industries, leveraging the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering. These partnerships are enabling advancements in semiconductor manufacturing, robotics, and autonomous vehicles, bringing physical AI closer to real-world production.

Samsung Enhances Semiconductor Innovation with AI and Accelerated Computing

Samsung Electronics is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to drive semiconductor innovation through the use of accelerated computing and AI physics. The collaboration includes materials research, process development, and device engineering. Samsung is utilizing NVIDIA cuISS and cuDSS to accelerate computations involving sparse linear systems, as well as GPU acceleration for process and optical simulations.

In materials research, Samsung’s sMOL platform has achieved up to a 5x speedup in quantum chemical calculations using NVIDIA cuEST. Additionally, the company is exploring NVIDIA cuEquivariance to enhance tensor operations for atomistic AI models. A significant breakthrough was achieved in chip-scale thermal and mechanical analysis workflows, where AI-predicted material properties and GPU acceleration reduced simulation time from 18 hours on a 32-core CPU to just 41 seconds on a GPU-accelerated coarse grid, a 1,600x speedup.

Kakao Mobility Advances Autonomous Driving with NVIDIA

Kakao Mobility is collaborating with NVIDIA to develop a level 4 autonomous driving system. The initiative combines Kakao Mobility’s expertise in operating autonomous vehicles in Seoul’s Gangnam district with NVIDIA’s vehicle computing platforms. The company plans to utilize NVIDIA Hyperion, a reference platform for vehicle sensors and compute, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor. NVIDIA Halos will also be employed to enhance safety during the development and validation phases.

The project will initially focus on integrating Kakao Mobility’s software with Kia’s purpose-built vehicles, aiming to support future level 4 mobility services in Korea.

LG Electronics Innovates Robot Learning and Factory Simulation

LG Electronics and NVIDIA have successfully demonstrated robotic manipulation and manufacturing tasks using LG’s CLOiD robot in a real-world factory setting. The collaboration employed NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, Cosmos-based data augmentation, GR00T model training, Jetson AGX Thor onboard computing, and simulation-based evaluation to establish a physical AI data flywheel. This workflow enables continuous development and validation of robotic capabilities.

The partnership aims to refine repeatable processes for training and improving robots, enhancing their application in manufacturing environments.

These collaborations underscore Korea’s pivotal role in advancing physical AI technologies, as highlighted by NVIDIA’s Vice President for Robotics and Edge AI, Deepu Talla, during the NVIDIA AI Day Seoul 2026 event. Talla emphasized Korea’s strong capabilities in heavy industry, automotive, and electronics manufacturing, predicting the country’s significant contribution to physical AI over the next decade.